Mr. Sandground is the senior partner in the law firm Sandground, West and New, P.C., and has been practicing law in Virginia as well as the District of Columbia for 48 years. He is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia 4th and 9th Circuits of the United States Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Sandground graduated from the University of Michigan in 1952 and received a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was awarded an Honorary PhD by Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI in 2000. Mr. Sandground is a member of the Board of Directors at Hammatan, and serves as President of Elsan, U.S.A., and Chairman of Orient House, Ankara, Turkey.

To contact Mark please email: mark@hammatan.com